Safety Critical Software Principal Engineer

Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors. They currently have a new opening for a Safety Critical Software Principal Engineer located in Bristol, Aldershot, Epsom, Manchester or Silchester.  

You will have a lead role in a growing team that advises their clients how to develop and verify safety-critical software systems and programmable systems to ensure that they overcome technical challenges, meet engineering standards and regulatory requirements. They have a huge variety of projects on all the time, ranging from niche consultancy projects to large, high profile programmes.  

Your purpose:  

- Take on leading roles in safety-critical software teams setting direction to consultancy and engineering services for a range of clients in industries such as Nuclear Power, Defence, Rail and Aerospace.  

- Advise their clients how to develop and verify safety-critical software systems and programmable systems to ensure that they meet engineering standards and regulatory requirements.  

- Shape technical strategy help their teams define delivery plans and execute these on a day-to-day basis to solve their client’s challenges.  

- Work with their project and bid managers to balance time, cost, quality and client satisfaction parameters.  

- Mentor junior staff and support their competency growth.  

- Work with their technical assurance team to ensure the quality of work that they deliver meets their high professional standards.  

- Work with their market sales teams to support bidding for new projects.

You will have –  

- A degree-level qualification in Computer Science, Mathematics, science or engineering subject.  

- Chartered status or be working towards this.  

- Knowledge of design, development and test of real-time, embedded software, particularly in a safety-critical context.  

- Experience of applying standards used in safety or mission-critical industries such as IECs 61508, 60880, 50128, 62061, 61513 or 61226; ARP4754; DEF-STANs 00-55 or 00-56; or DO-178C.  

- Experience of developing and / or assuring Software, Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) and Complex Electronic Hardware (CEH) Systems.  

You will be –  

- An experienced technical leader.  

- A creative thinker and an excellent communicator.  

- A team player.  

They are especially interested in hearing from candidates with demonstrable experience of –  

- Providing independent advice, support and guidance in an Aerospace, Rail, Nuclear, Medical or other safety critical environment.  

- Developing pragmatic and novel solutions to complex problems.  

- Contributing to a range of project lifecycle stages from concept to decommissioning.